[Hook: Das Racist] x2Peep the architecture, think about your fatherPeep the father figures, take a lot of picturesIt lasts longerBut what lasts longer than that? The actual

[Verse 1: Kool A.D.]Game supernatural wigiThe kid too clean, squeakyWindshield squeegee, see me?Y’all think it’s joke, joke, heheBut it’s inevitableLike, dagger in a bro pee-peeSpoke freely to see how the folks feel meI don’t even know the real meSo what makes you think you know the deal, b, feel me?I’m not really concerned with the concernsOf the people who can’t even discern my concernsI turn my concerns into wordsI could earn a couple curds and whey withTold I got a way with wordsBut it doesn’t take much, I just say shitHalf my ancestors was stuck on a slave shipThe plan was, rob every label with the same clipI know it sounds basic to someBut what’s basic to some, to some others is actualPeep the factual, professional sabbatical takerI’m a Laker, a cake-baker, a money-makerA funny-joker, a dummy-smokerA global village idiot, killin’ itTell me if you feelin’ it

[Hook]Peep the architecture, think about your fatherPeep the father figures, take a lot of picturesIt lasts longerBut what lasts longer than that? The actual

[Verse 2: Heems]Yo, think about your mommaThink about the dramaThink about the llamasThink about the commasThat’s the pause, the silenceThe cause of violenceAnd in Queens, the kids ain’t sippin’ leanThey fiend, forever wean from a bag that’s plasticineAnd pass the green and stack the creamEtcetera, etcetera, etceteraCash rule everything around everyonePlenty guns, anyone could become anyoneHeem is special, get ahead with the rhymeAnd put his pants on two legs at a timeAt the bodega they play la mega CormegaEveryone’s spanish like VegaNew York is a hell of a town

[Hook: Das Racist/Talib Kweli] x2Peep the architecture, think about your fatherPeep the father figures, take a lot of picturesIt lasts longerBut what lasts longer than that? The actual

[Verse 3: Talib Kweli]Yo, abra kadabra magical, respect, unilateralUniversal magnetic, automatically attractin’ youThese rapper dudes, mad are emotional or irrationalUse it motivation, they convergin’ on the capitalInternational travel, unfurl and unravel my flagI put it down year-round, check the calendarThe places I’ve never been I’m tryin’ to get toGod the pilot, I’m the passengerWhip it through the African diasporaFollowin’ navigation like nations to a degreeLike a doctor or when I’m rockin’, the education is keySwallowin’ medications like patients to a degreeLike a doctor give remedies, except the doctor is meUppers and downers help us to cope with the stuff around usTo drown us and get to livin’ from over and under countersI’m overdosin’ on life, rollin’ in the natural blackAnd only deal with actual facts, yeah.